Terry Pratchett - Snuff
It's a Sam Vimes book - Sam takes a vacation, and finds a mystery to solve. That's all I know, and all I need to know.
Quentin Dodd - The Princess of Neptune
Looks quirky - a teenaged punk rock drummer in training and her brother get caught up in some complicated science scheme involving some sort of conspiracy about the food in a fast food restaurant, and aliens. Or something. I poked at it briefly last night, it seems fluffy - my wife seems to have stolen it to read during the long boring training she's doing today.
And here's the thing to drool over:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1306330334/cartes-infernales
Ariana Osborne is planning to restore a series of images from Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy's Dictionnaire Infernal (link goes to wikipedia), and then print them on a series of over-sized cards (to be used however you wish - you can do divinations with them, keep them as a curio, incorporate them into a role playing game - you could pretend to be Giles from Buffy - the possibilities are endless). The images are funky pictures of medieval demons and such:
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ETA: Ariana says that if she sells the cards after the kickstarter process, they would retail for $45-50, plus S&H.
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